Scanning Beta 4: Ready for Release? — Approaching Infinity Steam update #414836

Planet scanning is here (in the beta branch anyway), and this version is much more successful than the previous experiment from late August. Please note that I have very good scanners in the image below. You will *not* be getting that much information when you start out! You know the drill by now: Move over a planet. Press Get details: Atmosphere Environmental Damage Terrain Amount and Kind(s) of life Amount and Type of natural resources Special features Alien signals? Human life signs?! Would you like to know more? I wrote a blog post about how hard this actually was, adding scanning to a 7-year-old game. Also in this version is the "Look" command. But since the L key is taken by the Captain's Log feature, it's called "Peer" and assigned to the key. Of course you can re-bind that yourself... You can even press to m...